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The corpus by when the books were actually published, newest year first. The summer lists group by when MIT recommended a book; this re-cuts the whole shelf by its own publication dates, from 2020 to 2026.

2026
20 books

A Pox on Fools: The True Believers, Grifters, and Cynics Who Convinced Us to Reject Vaccines

A Pox on Fools: The True Believers, Grifters, and Cynics Who Convinced Us to Reject VaccinesThomas LevensonScience & engineering

Argumentation: The Key Concepts

Argumentation: The Key ConceptsEdward SchiappaCulture, humanities & social science

Auditing AI

Auditing AIKarrie G. KarahaliosTechnology & society

Bayesian Entrepreneurship

Bayesian EntrepreneurshipErin L. ScottEducation, work, finance & impact

Birds Up Close: An Engineer Explores Their Hidden Wonders

Birds Up Close: An Engineer Explores Their Hidden WondersLorna J. GibsonScience & engineering

Blanking: An Annotated Archive of Projects and Thoughts on Architecture

Blanking: An Annotated Archive of Projects and Thoughts on ArchitectureRosalyn ShiehArts, design, architecture & planning

Climate Change, Drinking Water Security, and Public Health: Global Challenges and Solutions

Climate Change, Drinking Water Security, and Public Health: Global Challenges and SolutionsLibby HsuScience & engineering

Computing in the Age of Decolonization: India's Lost Technological Revolution

Computing in the Age of Decolonization: India's Lost Technological RevolutionDwaipayan BanerjeeTechnology & society

Constructing Economic Nationalisms in Brazil and India

Constructing Economic Nationalisms in Brazil and IndiaJason JacksonCulture, humanities & social science

Design Before Disaster: Japan's Culture of Preparedness

Design Before Disaster: Japan's Culture of PreparednessMiho MazereeuwArts, design, architecture & planning

Jezelle: Thief of Forks

Jezelle: Thief of ForksScott Austin TirrellFiction & poetry

Launching from the Lab: Building a Deep-Tech Startup

Launching from the Lab: Building a Deep-Tech StartupLita NelsenEducation, work, finance & impact

Priority Technologies: Ensuring US Security and Shared Prosperity

Priority Technologies: Ensuring US Security and Shared ProsperityElisabeth B. ReynoldsTechnology & society

Rubrique Technologie / Tech Section

Rubrique Technologie / Tech SectionNick MontfortTechnology & society

The Art of Monetary Policy: Lessons from Sun Tzu for Central Banks

The Art of Monetary Policy: Lessons from Sun Tzu for Central BanksKristin J. ForbesEducation, work, finance & impact

The Handbook of Social Protection: Evidence and New Directions for Low- and Middle-Income Countries

The Handbook of Social Protection: Evidence and New Directions for Low- and Middle-Income CountriesBenjamin A. OlkenCulture, humanities & social science

The People Can Fly: American Promise, Black Prodigies, and the Greatest Miracle of All Time

The People Can Fly: American Promise, Black Prodigies, and the Greatest Miracle of All TimeJoshua BennettCulture, humanities & social science

The Race for Daphne

The Race for DaphneSarah C. BeckmannFiction & poetry

Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City

Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning CityKate BrownArts, design, architecture & planning

We (the People of the United States)

We (the People of the United States)Joshua BennettFiction & poetry
2025
46 books

American Independence in verse

American Independence in verseBrad SkowCulture, humanities & social science

Carbon Removal

Carbon RemovalHoward J. HerzogScience & engineering

Disciplined Entrepreneurship for Climate and Energy Ventures: 24 Steps to Build Solutions for People and the Planet

Disciplined Entrepreneurship for Climate and Energy Ventures: 24 Steps to Build Solutions for People and the PlanetBen SoltoffEducation, work, finance & impact

Phenomenal Moments: Revealing the Hidden Science Around Us

Phenomenal Moments: Revealing the Hidden Science Around UsFelice FrankelScience & engineering

Reconstruction as Violence in Assad's Syria

Reconstruction as Violence in Assad's SyriaNasser RabbatArts, design, architecture & planning

Retrench, Defend, Compete: Securing America's Future Against a Rising China

Retrench, Defend, Compete: Securing America's Future Against a Rising ChinaCharles L. GlaserCulture, humanities & social science

Rwanda's Genocide Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty

Rwanda's Genocide Heritage: Between Justice and SovereigntyDelia WendelCulture, humanities & social science

Shape Computation: Fifty Years, 1972-2022

Shape Computation: Fifty Years, 1972-2022Sotirios Kotsopoulos SM '00Technology & society

Shared Wisdom: Cultural Evolution in the Age of AI

Shared Wisdom: Cultural Evolution in the Age of AIAlex "Sandy" PentlandTechnology & society

Small-Town Renaissance: Bridging Technology, Heritage, and Planning in Shrinking Italy

Small-Town Renaissance: Bridging Technology, Heritage, and Planning in Shrinking ItalyBrent D. RyanArts, design, architecture & planning

Syntax: A Cognitive Approach

Syntax: A Cognitive ApproachEdward A. F. GibsonScience & engineering

The Colony and the Company: Haiti after the Mississippi Bubble

The Colony and the Company: Haiti after the Mississippi BubbleMalick W. GhachemCulture, humanities & social science

The Comedy of Computation: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Obsolescence

The Comedy of Computation: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ObsolescenceBenjamin MangrumTechnology & society

The Economic Consequences of the Second Trump Administration: A Preliminary Assessment

The Economic Consequences of the Second Trump Administration: A Preliminary AssessmentGary GenslerCulture, humanities & social science

The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction, and a Search for Relief

The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction, and a Search for ReliefTom Zeller Jr.Science & engineering

The Meritocracy Paradox: Where Talent Management Strategies Go Wrong and How to Fix Them

The Meritocracy Paradox: Where Talent Management Strategies Go Wrong and How to Fix ThemEmilio J. CastillaEducation, work, finance & impact

The Remote Revolution: Drones and Modern Statecraft

The Remote Revolution: Drones and Modern StatecraftErik Lin-GreenbergTechnology & society

The Shape of Wonder: How Scientists Think, Work, and Live

The Shape of Wonder: How Scientists Think, Work, and LiveAlan LightmanScience & engineering

There's Got to Be a Better Way: How to Deliver Results and Get Rid of the Stuff That Gets in the Way of Real Work

There's Got to Be a Better Way: How to Deliver Results and Get Rid of the Stuff That Gets in the Way of Real WorkNelson RepenningEducation, work, finance & impact

Thinking Historically: A Guide to Statecraft and Strategy

Thinking Historically: A Guide to Statecraft and StrategyFrancis J. GavinCulture, humanities & social science

Trade in War: Economic Cooperation Across Enemy Lines

Trade in War: Economic Cooperation Across Enemy LinesMariya GrinbergCulture, humanities & social science

Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry: How Capitalist Legitimacy Shaped Foreign Investment Policy in India

Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry: How Capitalist Legitimacy Shaped Foreign Investment Policy in IndiaJason JacksonCulture, humanities & social science

Uncertainty in Climate Change Research: An Integrated Approach

Uncertainty in Climate Change Research: An Integrated ApproachJennifer MorrisScience & engineering

A Century for Caroline

A Century for CarolineKaija LangleyFor young readers

Accelerating Innovation: Competitive Advantage through Ecosystem Engagement

Accelerating Innovation: Competitive Advantage through Ecosystem EngagementPhil BuddenEducation, work, finance & impact

Attention, Shoppers! American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy

Attention, Shoppers! American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon EconomyKathleen ThelenCulture, humanities & social science

Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, Delight

Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, DelightArthur BahrCulture, humanities & social science

Data, Systems, and Society: Harnessing AI for Societal Good

Data, Systems, and Society: Harnessing AI for Societal GoodMunther DahlehTechnology & society

Empty Vessel: The Global Economy in One Barge

Empty Vessel: The Global Economy in One BargeIan KumekawaCulture, humanities & social science

Jewish Theatrical Resources: A Guide for Theaters Producing Jewish Work

Jewish Theatrical Resources: A Guide for Theaters Producing Jewish WorkMarissa FriedmanArts, design, architecture & planning

Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter

Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the LetterJana DambrogioCulture, humanities & social science

Long-Term Care around the World

Long-Term Care around the WorldJonathan GruberCulture, humanities & social science

Play It Again, Sam: Repetition in the Arts

Play It Again, Sam: Repetition in the ArtsSamuel Jay KeyserArts, design, architecture & planning

Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You

Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for YouLotte BailynEducation, work, finance & impact

So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs - and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease

So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs - and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious DiseaseThomas LevensonScience & engineering

Spheres of Injustice: The Ethical Promise of Minority Presence

Spheres of Injustice: The Ethical Promise of Minority PresenceBruno PerreauCulture, humanities & social science

Steina

SteinaNatalie BellArts, design, architecture & planning

SuperShifts: Transforming How We Live, Learn, and Work in the Age of Intelligence

SuperShifts: Transforming How We Live, Learn, and Work in the Age of IntelligenceJa-Naé DuaneTechnology & society

Taxation and Resentment: Race, Party, and Class in American Tax Attitudes

Taxation and Resentment: Race, Party, and Class in American Tax AttitudesAndrea CampbellCulture, humanities & social science

The Analytics Edge in Healthcare

The Analytics Edge in HealthcareDimitris BertsimasTechnology & society

The Ballad World of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of Falkland

The Ballad World of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of FalklandRuth PerryCulture, humanities & social science

The Moving Image: A User's Manual

The Moving Image: A User's ManualPeter B. KaufmanArts, design, architecture & planning

The New Lunar Society: An Enlightenment Guide to the Next Industrial Revolution

The New Lunar Society: An Enlightenment Guide to the Next Industrial RevolutionDavid MindellTechnology & society

The Novice of Thanatos: An Epic Dark Fantasy of Horror, Death, and Necromancy

The Novice of Thanatos: An Epic Dark Fantasy of Horror, Death, and NecromancyScott Austin TirrellFiction & poetry

The Price of Our Values: The Economic Limits of Moral Life

The Price of Our Values: The Economic Limits of Moral LifeDavid ThesmarCulture, humanities & social science

Usability for the World: Building Better Cities and Communities

Usability for the World: Building Better Cities and CommunitiesHenry LiebermanArts, design, architecture & planning
2024
33 books

Against Reason: Tony Smith, Sculpture, and Other Modernisms

Against Reason: Tony Smith, Sculpture, and Other ModernismsJudith BarryArts, design, architecture & planning

All the Rocks We Love

All the Rocks We LoveTaylor PerronFor young readers

Beyond Ruins: Reimagining Modernism

Beyond Ruins: Reimagining ModernismRaafat Majzoub SM '17Arts, design, architecture & planning

Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing: Experiments on Building Trust

Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing: Experiments on Building TrustFotini ChristiaCulture, humanities & social science

Entrepreneurship: Choice and Strategy

Entrepreneurship: Choice and StrategyErin L. ScottEducation, work, finance & impact

Failure by Design: The California Energy Crisis and the Limits of Market Planning

Failure by Design: The California Energy Crisis and the Limits of Market PlanningGeorg RilingerEducation, work, finance & impact

I Love You Bigger Than Everything That's Big

I Love You Bigger Than Everything That's BigLindsay BartholomewFor young readers

Longevity Hubs: Regional Innovation for Global Aging

Longevity Hubs: Regional Innovation for Global AgingJoseph F. CoughlinTechnology & society

Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953-2023

Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953-2023Nick MontfortTechnology & society

Routledge Handbook of Space Policy

Routledge Handbook of Space PolicyDanielle R. WoodCulture, humanities & social science

Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation

Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a ReformationGreg EpsteinTechnology & society

The Equitably Resilient City: Solidarities and Struggles in the Face of Climate Crisis

The Equitably Resilient City: Solidarities and Struggles in the Face of Climate CrisisLawrence J. ValeArts, design, architecture & planning

The Miraculous from the Material: Understanding the Wonders of Nature

The Miraculous from the Material: Understanding the Wonders of NatureAlan LightmanScience & engineering

Uprooted: How post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe

Uprooted: How post-WWII Population Transfers Remade EuropeVolha CharnyshCulture, humanities & social science

Victorian Parlour Games: A Modern Host's Guide to Classic Fun for Everyone

Victorian Parlour Games: A Modern Host's Guide to Classic Fun for EveryoneNed WolfeCulture, humanities & social science

Writing, Thinking, and the Brain: How Neuroscience Can Improve Writing Instruction

Writing, Thinking, and the Brain: How Neuroscience Can Improve Writing InstructionJovi R. S. NazarenoEducation, work, finance & impact

Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action

Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in ActionCatherine D'IgnazioTechnology & society

Death, Dominance, and State-Building: The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention

Death, Dominance, and State-Building: The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military InterventionRoger PetersenCulture, humanities & social science

Disciplined Entrepreneurship Startup Tactics: 15 Tactics to Turn Your Business Plan Into a Business

Disciplined Entrepreneurship Startup Tactics: 15 Tactics to Turn Your Business Plan Into a BusinessPaul CheekEducation, work, finance & impact

From Intention to Impact: A Practical Guide to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

From Intention to Impact: A Practical Guide to Diversity, Equity, and InclusionMalia LazuEducation, work, finance & impact

Future[tectonics]: Exploring the intersection between technology, architecture and urbanism

Future[tectonics]: Exploring the intersection between technology, architecture and urbanismJacob LehrerTechnology & society

Life at the Center: Haitians and Corporate Catholicism in Boston

Life at the Center: Haitians and Corporate Catholicism in BostonErica Caple JamesCulture, humanities & social science

Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness

Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and WellnessTod MachoverTechnology & society

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and FinanceAnnie ThompsonEducation, work, finance & impact

Portable Postsocialisms: New Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History

Portable Postsocialisms: New Cuban Mediascapes after the End of HistoryPaloma DuongCulture, humanities & social science

red helicopter - a parable for our times: lead change with kindness (plus a little math)

red helicopter - a parable for our times: lead change with kindness (plus a little math)James RheeEducation, work, finance & impact

Rethinking Cyber Warfare: The International Relations of Digital Disruption

Rethinking Cyber Warfare: The International Relations of Digital DisruptionR. David EdelmanTechnology & society

Routes to Reform: Education Politics in Latin America

Routes to Reform: Education Politics in Latin AmericaBen Ross SchneiderEducation, work, finance & impact

Sky. Pond. Mouth.

Sky. Pond. Mouth.Kevin McLellanFiction & poetry

Solvable: How We Healed the Earth, and How We Can Do It Again

Solvable: How We Healed the Earth, and How We Can Do It AgainSusan SolomonScience & engineering

The AFIRE Guide to U.S. Real Estate Investing

The AFIRE Guide to U.S. Real Estate InvestingJacques GordonEducation, work, finance & impact

The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots

The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with RobotsDaniela RusTechnology & society

Trouble with Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions

Trouble with Gender: Sex Facts, Gender FictionsAlex ByrneCulture, humanities & social science
2023
51 books

A Book of Waves

A Book of WavesStefan HelmreichScience & engineering

An Introduction to System Safety Engineering

An Introduction to System Safety EngineeringNancy G. LevesonScience & engineering

At the Pivot of East and West: Ethnographic, Literary and Filmic Arts

At the Pivot of East and West: Ethnographic, Literary and Filmic ArtsMichael M. J. FischerCulture, humanities & social science

Code Work: Hacking Across the U.S./México Techno-Borderlands

Code Work: Hacking Across the U.S./México Techno-BorderlandsHéctor BeltránTechnology & society

Dare to Invent the Future: Knowledge in the Service of and Through Problem-Solving

Dare to Invent the Future: Knowledge in the Service of and Through Problem-SolvingClapperton Chakanetsa MavhungaCulture, humanities & social science

Data Is Everybody's Business: The Fundamentals of Data Monetization

Data Is Everybody's Business: The Fundamentals of Data MonetizationBarbara H. WixomEducation, work, finance & impact

Emergency INDEX: An Annual Document of Performance Practice, vol. 10

Emergency INDEX: An Annual Document of Performance Practice, vol. 10Gearoid DolanArts, design, architecture & planning

Iterate: The Secret to Innovation in Schools

Iterate: The Secret to Innovation in SchoolsJustin ReichEducation, work, finance & impact

Land Air Sea: Architecture and Environment in the Early Modern Era

Land Air Sea: Architecture and Environment in the Early Modern EraCaroline MurphyArts, design, architecture & planning

Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China

Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty ChinaTristan BrownCulture, humanities & social science

Lines Drawn across the Globe

Lines Drawn across the GlobeMary FullerCulture, humanities & social science

Made Here: Recipes and Reflections From NYC's Asian Communities

Made Here: Recipes and Reflections From NYC's Asian CommunitiesRobin ZhangMiscellany

Model Thinking for Everyday Life: How to Make Smarter Decisions

Model Thinking for Everyday Life: How to Make Smarter DecisionsRichard LarsonTechnology & society

Organic Social Media: How to Build Flourishing Online Communities

Organic Social Media: How to Build Flourishing Online CommunitiesJenny Li FowlerEducation, work, finance & impact

Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It

Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight ItAdam BerinskyCulture, humanities & social science

Seizing Control: Managing Epilepsy and Others' Reactions to It - A Memoir

Seizing Control: Managing Epilepsy and Others' Reactions to It - A MemoirLaura BeretskyFiction & poetry

The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset That Drives Extraordinary Results

The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset That Drives Extraordinary ResultsAndrew McAfeeEducation, work, finance & impact

The Long First Millennium: Affluence, Architecture, and Its Dark Matter Economy

The Long First Millennium: Affluence, Architecture, and Its Dark Matter EconomyMark JarzombekCulture, humanities & social science

The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline

The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its DeclineYasheng HuangCulture, humanities & social science

The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Heritage, and Death

The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Heritage, and DeathLaura Anderson BarbataArts, design, architecture & planning

They All Made Peace - What Is Peace?

They All Made Peace - What Is Peace?Lerna EkmekciogluCulture, humanities & social science

Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines

Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of MachinesJoy Buolamwini SM '17Technology & society

We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care

We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health CareAmy FinkelsteinCulture, humanities & social science

Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification

Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and AmplificationSteven J. SpearEducation, work, finance & impact

World Literature in the Soviet Union

World Literature in the Soviet UnionMaria KhotimskyCulture, humanities & social science

Architecture Constructed: Notes on a Discipline

Architecture Constructed: Notes on a DisciplineMark JarzombekArts, design, architecture & planning

Atlas of the Senseable City

Atlas of the Senseable CityCarlo RattiTechnology & society

Climate Inheritance

Climate InheritanceRania GhosnArts, design, architecture & planning

Design and Solidarity: Conversations on Collective Futures

Design and Solidarity: Conversations on Collective FuturesRafi SegalArts, design, architecture & planning

Eating Beside Ourselves: Thresholds of Foods and Bodies

Eating Beside Ourselves: Thresholds of Foods and BodiesHeather PaxsonCulture, humanities & social science

Fiscal Policy under Low Interest Rates

Fiscal Policy under Low Interest RatesOlivier BlanchardEducation, work, finance & impact

Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East

Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle EastSteven SimonCulture, humanities & social science

Handbook of Space Resources

Handbook of Space ResourcesOlivier de Weck and Jeffrey HoffmanTechnology & society

Harvard Square: A Love Story

Harvard Square: A Love StoryCatherine J. TurcoCulture, humanities & social science

I Was Left Out

I Was Left OutSally O. LeeFor young readers

Judicial Dispute Resolution: New Roles for Judges in Ensuring Justice

Judicial Dispute Resolution: New Roles for Judges in Ensuring JusticeLarry SusskindCulture, humanities & social science

Lines Drawn across the Globe: Reading Richard Hakluyt's 'Principal Navigations

Lines Drawn across the Globe: Reading Richard Hakluyt's 'Principal NavigationsMary C. FullerCulture, humanities & social science

Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games

Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board GamesMikael JakobssonCulture, humanities & social science

Pomegranate

PomegranateHelen Elaine LeeFiction & poetry

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and ProsperityDaron AcemogluTechnology & society

Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life

Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of LifeMichael M. J. FischerCulture, humanities & social science

Reclaiming Space

Reclaiming SpaceDanielle WoodTechnology & society

Responding to the Climate Threat: Essays on Humanity's Greatest Challenge

Responding to the Climate Threat: Essays on Humanity's Greatest ChallengeHenry JacobyScience & engineering

Spoken Word: A Cultural History

Spoken Word: A Cultural HistoryJoshua BennettCulture, humanities & social science

The Case for Good Jobs: How Great Companies Bring Dignity, Pay, and Meaning to Everyone's Work

The Case for Good Jobs: How Great Companies Bring Dignity, Pay, and Meaning to Everyone's WorkZeynep TonEducation, work, finance & impact

The Magic Conveyer Belt: Supply Chains, A.I., and the Future of Work

The Magic Conveyer Belt: Supply Chains, A.I., and the Future of WorkYossi SheffiEducation, work, finance & impact

The Order of Things

The Order of ThingsKaija LangleyFor young readers

The Scarce State: Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland

The Scarce State: Inequality and Political Power in the HinterlandNoah L. NathanCulture, humanities & social science

The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science

The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of ScienceAlan LightmanScience & engineering

What is This Management?: Essays on Corporate Governance and Management Education

What is This Management?: Essays on Corporate Governance and Management EducationWilliam F. PoundsEducation, work, finance & impact

Workforce Ecosystems: Reaching Strategic Goals with People, Partners, and Technologies

Workforce Ecosystems: Reaching Strategic Goals with People, Partners, and TechnologiesDavid KironEducation, work, finance & impact
2022
34 books

[SpaINdia] Cooper ACTioning Urban Condensers Updating Heritage Areas

[SpaINdia] Cooper ACTioning Urban Condensers Updating Heritage AreasFranca Alexandra SonntagArts, design, architecture & planning

A New Companion to Herman Melville

A New Companion to Herman MelvilleWyn KelleyCulture, humanities & social science

A Thousand Steps to Parliament: Constructing Electable Women in Mongolia

A Thousand Steps to Parliament: Constructing Electable Women in MongoliaManduhai BuyandelgerCulture, humanities & social science

Climate Future: Averting and Adapting to Climate Change

Climate Future: Averting and Adapting to Climate ChangeRobert S. PindyckScience & engineering

Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment

Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of EnlightenmentKristel SmentekArts, design, architecture & planning

Equity, Evaluation, and International Cooperation: In Pursuit of Proximate Peers in an African City

Equity, Evaluation, and International Cooperation: In Pursuit of Proximate Peers in an African CityGabriella CaroliniArts, design, architecture & planning

Future Ready: The Four Pathways to Capturing Digital Value

Future Ready: The Four Pathways to Capturing Digital ValueStephanie L. WoernerEducation, work, finance & impact

Handbook of Innovation and Appropriate Technologies for International Development

Handbook of Innovation and Appropriate Technologies for International DevelopmentDaniel FreyTechnology & society

Life Is Hard

Life Is HardKieran SetiyaCulture, humanities & social science

Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It

Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About ItAmy FinkelsteinEducation, work, finance & impact

Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Nature in Berlin

Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Nature in BerlinBettina StoetzerCulture, humanities & social science

Shapes of Imagination: Calculating in Coleridge's Magical Realm

Shapes of Imagination: Calculating in Coleridge's Magical RealmGeorge StinyArts, design, architecture & planning

The Study of Human Life

The Study of Human LifeJoshua BennettFiction & poetry

Writing Egypt: Al-Maqrizi and His Historical Project

Writing Egypt: Al-Maqrizi and His Historical ProjectNasser RabbatCulture, humanities & social science

A Tactical Guide to Science Journalism: Lessons From the Front Lines

A Tactical Guide to Science Journalism: Lessons From the Front LinesDeborah BlumScience & engineering

Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus

Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred DresselhausMaia WeinstockFiction & poetry

Computational Thinking Education in K-12: Artificial Intelligence Literacy and Physical Computing

Computational Thinking Education in K-12: Artificial Intelligence Literacy and Physical ComputingHarold AbelsonEducation, work, finance & impact

Equity, Evaluation, and International Cooperation: In Pursuit of Proximate Peers in an African City

Equity, Evaluation, and International Cooperation: In Pursuit of Proximate Peers in an African CityGabriella Y. CaroliniArts, design, architecture & planning

Hidden Games: The Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrational Human Behavior

Hidden Games: The Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrational Human BehaviorErez YoeliCulture, humanities & social science

Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel

Journeys Through the Radiant CitadelD. Fox HarrellFiction & poetry

Life-Destroying Diagrams

Life-Destroying DiagramsEugenie BrinkemaCulture, humanities & social science

New Industrial Urbanism: Designing Places for Production

New Industrial Urbanism: Designing Places for ProductionEran Ben-JosephArts, design, architecture & planning

Persuading with Data: A Guide to Designing, Delivering, and Defending Your Data

Persuading with Data: A Guide to Designing, Delivering, and Defending Your DataMiro KazakoffArts, design, architecture & planning

Republics of Myth: National Narratives and the U.S.-Iran Conflict

Republics of Myth: National Narratives and the U.S.-Iran ConflictJohn TirmanCulture, humanities & social science

Seeking the Bomb: Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation

Seeking the Bomb: Strategies of Nuclear ProliferationVipin NarangCulture, humanities & social science

Syntax in the Treetops

Syntax in the TreetopsShigeru MiyagawaCulture, humanities & social science

The Answer Is You: A Guidebook to Creating a Life Full of Impact

The Answer Is You: A Guidebook to Creating a Life Full of ImpactAlex AmouyelEducation, work, finance & impact

The Immersive Enclosure: Virtual Reality in Japan

The Immersive Enclosure: Virtual Reality in JapanPaul RoquetTechnology & society

The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines

The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent MachinesDavid AutorEducation, work, finance & impact

Une Fille Indocile: L'émancipation d'une femme nourrie par les mouvements féministes des années 60-70 aux États-Unis

Une Fille Indocile: L'émancipation d'une femme nourrie par les mouvements féministes des années 60-70 aux États-UnisIsabelle de CourtivronFiction & poetry

Unintended Lessons of Revolution: Student Teachers and Political Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Mexico

Unintended Lessons of Revolution: Student Teachers and Political Radicalism in Twentieth-Century MexicoTanalís PadillaCulture, humanities & social science

Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa after Apartheid

Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa after ApartheidEvan LiebermanCulture, humanities & social science

What Is Life?

What Is Life?Stefan HelmreichScience & engineering

When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America

When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of AmericaHeather HendershotCulture, humanities & social science
2021
43 books

97 Things Every Data Engineer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts

97 Things Every Data Engineer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the ExpertsTobias MaceyTechnology & society

A Shot in the Arm: How Science, Engineering, and Supply Chains Converged to Vaccinate the World

A Shot in the Arm: How Science, Engineering, and Supply Chains Converged to Vaccinate the WorldYossi SheffiScience & engineering

Ada and the Galaxies

Ada and the GalaxiesAlan LightmanFor young readers

Biofabrication

BiofabricationRitu RamanTechnology & society

Building the New Economy: Data as Capital

Building the New Economy: Data as CapitalAlex "Sandy" PentlandTechnology & society

Chasing Black Holes: An Insider's View of a Space Astronomy Mission

Chasing Black Holes: An Insider's View of a Space Astronomy MissionHale BradtScience & engineering

Design to Live: Everyday Inventions from a Refugee Camp

Design to Live: Everyday Inventions from a Refugee CampAzra AkšamijaArts, design, architecture & planning

Fearless: A Dissection of Jamaican Spirituality: A Path to Unity and Triumph for the African and Non-African Diaspora

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In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: The Stories, Voices, and Key Insights of the Pioneers Who Shaped the Way We Invest

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Into the Anthropocosmos: A Whole Space Catalog from the MIT Space Exploration Initiative

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Leadership in Planning: How to Communicate Ideas and Effect Positive Change

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Naiad Blood

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Shakespeare and Digital Pedagogy: Case Studies and Strategies

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Shapley's Round Table: A Memoir by the Astronomer's Daughter

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The Age of AI: And Our Human Future

The Age of AI: And Our Human FutureDaniel HuttenlocherTechnology & society

The Essence of Software: Why Concepts Matter for Great Design

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The Transgender Exigency: Defining Sex and Gender in the 21st Century

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Urban Play: Make-Believe, Technology, and Space

Urban Play: Make-Believe, Technology, and SpaceFábio DuarteArts, design, architecture & planning

When People Want Punishment: Retributive Justice and the Puzzle of Authoritarian Popularity

When People Want Punishment: Retributive Justice and the Puzzle of Authoritarian PopularityLily TsaiCulture, humanities & social science

A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation: Uniting Design, Economics, and Policy

A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation: Uniting Design, Economics, and PolicyAlan BergerArts, design, architecture & planning

American Fascism

American FascismHeather PaxsonCulture, humanities & social science

Camino Road

Camino RoadRenée GreenFiction & poetry

Combating Inequality: Rethinking Government's Role

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Dance, Architecture and Engineering (Dance in Dialogue)

Dance, Architecture and Engineering (Dance in Dialogue)Adesola AkinleyeArts, design, architecture & planning

Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality

Fundamentals: Ten Keys to RealityFrank WilczekScience & engineering

Furthering Fair Housing: Prospects for Racial Justice in America's Neighborhoods

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Insurance Era: Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America

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Just Money: Mission-Driven Banks and the Future of Finance

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Make it Clear: Speak and Write to Persuade and Inform

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Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women's Digital Resistance

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Peculiar Produce: The Alphabet Book

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Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings

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Redesigning AI: Work, Democracy, and Justice in the Age of Automation

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Remote, Inc.: How to Thrive at Work . . . Wherever You Are

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The Cannibal's Cookbook: Mining Myths of Cyclopean Constructions

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The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

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The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about Our Future with Robots

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The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge

The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free KnowledgePeter B. KaufmanEducation, work, finance & impact

The Planet After Geoengineering

The Planet After GeoengineeringRania GhosnFiction & poetry

Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution

Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials RevolutionSkylar TibbitsArts, design, architecture & planning

Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity

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Wall to Wall: Law as Culture in Latin America and Spain

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Workforce Education: A New Roadmap

Workforce Education: A New RoadmapWilliam BonvillianEducation, work, finance & impact
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Architecture of Coexistence: Building Pluralism

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Beyond 9/11: Homeland Security for the Twenty-First Century

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Data Action: Using Data for Public Good

Data Action: Using Data for Public GoodSarah WilliamsTechnology & society

Data Feminism

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Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need

Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We NeedSasha Costanza-ChockArts, design, architecture & planning

Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can't Transform Education

Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can't Transform EducationJustin ReichEducation, work, finance & impact

Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn

Grasp: The Science Transforming How We LearnSanjay SarmaEducation, work, finance & impact

Mercury Stories: Understanding Sustainability through a Volatile Element

Mercury Stories: Understanding Sustainability through a Volatile ElementNoelle E. SelinScience & engineering

Money for Nothing: The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made The World Rich

Money for Nothing: The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made The World RichThomas LevensonCulture, humanities & social science

Overload: How Good Jobs Went Bad and What We Can Do About It

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Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World

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Recommendation Engines

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Shaping the Future of Work: A Handbook for Action and a New Social Contract

Shaping the Future of Work: A Handbook for Action and a New Social ContractTom KochanEducation, work, finance & impact

States of Childhood: From the Junior Republic to the American Republic, 1895-1945

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Step Up, Step Back: How to Really Deliver Strategic Change in Your Organization

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Street Commerce: Creating Vibrant Urban Sidewalks

Street Commerce: Creating Vibrant Urban SidewalksAndres SevtsukArts, design, architecture & planning

The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health - and How We Must Adapt

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The Mental Life of Modernism: Why Poetry, Painting, and Music Changed at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

The Mental Life of Modernism: Why Poetry, Painting, and Music Changed at the Turn of the Twentieth CenturySamuel Jay KeyserCulture, humanities & social science

The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir

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The World as an Architectural Project

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Toward Urban Economic Vibrancy: Patterns and Practices in Asia's New Cities

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What to Expect When You're Expecting Robots: The Future of Human-Robot Collaboration

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